At this year’s Dreamforce, Salesforce is expected to highlight its continued investment in industry-specific solutions, with Life Sciences Cloud (LSC) taking a leading role. From patient engagement to compliance workflows, Salesforce is bringing together every part of the life sciences value chain on one unified, AI-ready platform.
For many life sciences organizations, this marks the start of a major transformation. After years of building on legacy platforms like Veeva, teams are preparing to modernize their technology stacks and take advantage of the scalability, flexibility, and intelligence that Salesforce Life Sciences Cloud offers.
But making that move is not simple.
The Challenge: Moving Off Veeva Is Complex
Veeva has long delivered CRM and compliance solutions built directly on the Salesforce platform. Veeva announced it will not renew its Salesforce platform agreement after September 2025 and is moving CRM to its own Vault platform. Veeva CRM on Salesforce will be supported during a transition window through 2030, so customers running Veeva on Salesforce need to plan their migration in that timeframe.
This change has created a moment of decision for life sciences organizations: either move to Veeva Vault or stay within the Salesforce ecosystem by adopting Life Sciences Cloud. Because of the prior non-compete, Salesforce could not offer full pharma CRM until after September 2025, which is why Life Sciences Cloud is now positioned as the native Salesforce path for pharma and biotech.
For companies that have built deep integrations, data models, and automations inside Salesforce, staying with Salesforce is often the natural choice. Yet migrating off Veeva is far from straightforward. Years of customization and technical debt can make the process risky and time-consuming.
Veeva orgs often carry redundant metadata, inactive users, outdated validation rules, and complex permission models. Manual migration or rebuilding from scratch can introduce compliance gaps, data loss, or broken business logic. For life sciences companies operating in regulated environments, the stakes could not be higher.
Organizations need a partner that can help them move to Life Sciences Cloud cleanly and confidently, without compromising compliance or productivity.
How Metazoa Simplifies the Move to Life Sciences Cloud
Metazoa is the trusted platform for Salesforce org management, optimization, and transformation. Our customers rely on Metazoa Snapshot to analyze and streamline their Salesforce environments before, during, and after migration.
When it comes to moving from Veeva to Life Sciences Cloud, Metazoa helps by:
- Analyzing org health and complexity: Identify redundant metadata, unused components, and security risks.
- Cleaning up technical debt: Remove inactive users, simplify profiles and permission sets, and optimize automation logic.
- Supporting org splits and merges: Consolidate multiple orgs or divide complex Veeva environments into clean, compliant Salesforce orgs.
- Automating documentation and compliance tracking: Ensure full visibility into every change for regulatory audits and internal governance.
With Metazoa, life sciences teams can reduce migration risk, accelerate implementation, and start realizing value on Life Sciences Cloud faster.
How Snapshot Accelerates and De-Risks Veeva to Life Sciences Cloud Migrations
Moving off Veeva onto Life Sciences Cloud is not just a data migration. It is a complete org transformation. You are rebuilding a Salesforce environment from the ground up while maintaining compliance, functionality, and fidelity.
In today’s market, timelines are tighter and expectations are higher. Projects that once took years now need to be delivered in months. The only way to achieve that level of speed, quality, and control is with an intelligent platform like Snapshot.
Snapshot handles the hardest parts of that process automatically.
Complete org intelligence
Snapshot inventories every object, field, automation, and permission in the Veeva org, giving a full picture of what exists, what is redundant, and what must be rebuilt in the new environment. This is the foundation for meaningful business process discussions that define what should be preserved or redesigned.
Deep dependency and impact analysis
With our proprietary Dependency API (350 plus metadata types and 1,400 relationships), Snapshot shows how everything connects. Architects can see the downstream impact of removing or refactoring components before migration, reducing risk and uncertainty.
Technical debt cleanup before rebuild
Snapshot’s 100 plus actionable reports identify and remediate obsolete code, unused fields, and broken automations. This prevents deployment errors, shortens UAT cycles, and sets the stage for a clean, compliant rebuild.
Shell Assets for structural cloning
Snapshot can create a Shell Asset of the org, a clean structural clone with full metadata fidelity but none of the legacy debris. This becomes the safe, accurate foundation for the new Life Sciences Cloud environment and dramatically accelerates setup time.
Remapping of objects and fields
Snapshot can remap data records, objects, and fields between different object types. This is critical when converting Veeva’s custom data model to align with Life Sciences Cloud standards. It ensures a smooth transition without manual re-engineering or loss of critical data relationships.
Compliance and audit readiness
Snapshot automatically generates audit reports, permission summaries, and documentation for regulatory requirements such as FDA, GDPR, and GxP. This satisfies InfoSec and compliance teams from day one and reduces validation time.
AI governance and MCP integration
After migration, Snapshot’s AI automation powered by the MCP server continuously analyzes the new org, recommends optimizations, and produces branded progress reports. This extends the value beyond migration into ongoing governance and lifecycle management.
Repeatable process and quality at scale
With Snapshot, every project improves the next. Implementation teams can move from one-off, manual engagements to a software-driven delivery model with consistent quality, predictable outcomes, and compounding efficiency.
Why This Matters Now
Salesforce Life Sciences Cloud is built to unify patient, provider, and partner data in one place, enabling organizations to deliver more personalized, compliant, and efficient experiences. The sooner life sciences companies modernize their platforms, the sooner they can unlock AI-driven insights and next-generation digital experiences.
The opportunity is significant, but success depends on starting with a strong foundation. That means addressing the technical debt and metadata complexity that hold legacy Veeva environments back.
Metazoa’s platform provides the visibility and automation needed to make this transition smooth, secure, and successful.
Leading the Life Sciences Cloud Transformation
As Dreamforce approaches, more sessions and conversations are highlighting Life Sciences Cloud and its role in the next wave of digital transformation, with most migrations expected to occur between 2025 and 2030. The message is clear: the industry is moving fast, and Salesforce is leading the way. Metazoa is helping customers take that next step with confidence.
By removing complexity and ensuring compliance, Metazoa is the bridge that connects today’s legacy Veeva orgs to tomorrow’s intelligent, AI-powered Life Sciences Cloud environments.
If your organization is exploring Life Sciences Cloud or planning to move off Veeva, now is the time to start the conversation.
Talk to Metazoa about your roadmap to Life Sciences Cloud and see how we can help you accelerate your journey.
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